Machine for making shoe-pegs.



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MACHINE FOR MAKING SHOE- PEGS.

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MACHINE FOR BAKING SRGE FEES.

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JOHN LEWIS, OF BROWNVILLE, MAINE, AND GEORGE E. M. LEWIS, OF LEWISTON, CANADA.

MACHINE FOR MAKING SHOE-PEGS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 654,011, dated July 17, 1900. Application filed April 28, 1900. Serial No. 14,694. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JOHN LEWIs, residing in Brownville, in the county of Piscataquis, in the State of Maine, and GEORGE E. M. LEWIS, residing in Lewiston, in the county of Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Making Shoe-Pegs, of which the following is a specification.

This is a machine for making shoe-pegs from machine peg-wood or ribbon peg-wood, and it is especially adapted for making shoepegs from what is known as pegwood waste. Peg-wood waste is a material which is exceedingly inexpensive, and our machine is intended to convert this into shoe-pegs, making as good a product therefrom as could be made from the best machine peg-wood.

Our invention consists in the novel construction and arrangements of parts fully described below, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a machine embodying our invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the under side. Fig. 3 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a vertical section taken on line 4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an elevation of a piece of peg-wood or peg-wood waste such as is fed into the machine, one peg having been removed. Dotted lines illustrate the position taken by the cutter as they remove the pegs.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents the frame of themachine, supporting a suitable bed A. Mounted in the frame is a driving-shaft 1), provided with fast and loose pulleys c 6?, respectively. Mounted on the shaft 1; is a crank-disk e, which is connected by a rod f with a horizontally-sliding carriage B, provided with wings B, whereby the carriage moves horizontally in suitable ways, as a, Fig. 4, in the frame. The carria e is formed with a dia onal throat B" on one side of which is diagonally placed a knife G, secured to an adjustable knife-holder D. The upper portion of this knife is formed, as shown in Fig. 4, with a bend, whereby its upper end 0' is adapted to bevel off one side of the peg-wood, while the remainder or lower portion of the knife cuts the upright or main portion of one side of the peg. The carriage B also supports adjustably the holder D of the knife E. This'knife is shorter than the knife 0, and itsupper end E is bent inward, as shown, toward the portion 0 of the knife 0. p The forward edge of the knife E is at the rear of the forward edge of the knife Othat is, farther from the stock to be cutso that as the carriage 13 moves toward the peg-wood the knife 0 is in advance. The positions and shapes of these knives will be understood by reference to Figs. 1 and 4. I

F represents a soft-metal block or upright plate adj ustably held in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 by a screw F in the platform a, said block or plate being on the opposite side from the knives of the peg-wood being fed into the machine and serving not only as a back for the peg-wood, but presentin g a soft end to the knife E after it has cut through the pegwood and allowing the knife 0 to shear byit. Mounted on the shaft 1) is another crank-disk g, which is connected by a rod h with aslide k, reciprocating horizontally in ways 'm, secured to the under side of the frame. (See Fig. 2.) This slide has pivotally connected with it one end of a bar 12, the opposite end of which is pivotally connected with a lever H, the inner end of which is loose on the hub K of the feed-roll K, provided with a toothed or serrated periphery, as shown in Fig. 1. This hub or shaft K has fast on it the gearwheel K, Fig. 2 and 3, which engages with a gear-wheel L on a vertical shaft or stud L, said gear-wheel L engaging with a gear-wheel N on a vertical shaft or stud N and said gearwheel N engaging with a gear-wheel P on the hub P of the feed-roll P, provided with a serrated or toothed periphery, as illustrated in Fig. 1. The hub K and shafts or studs L N are supported directly by the frame of the machine; but the hub P is supported by the end of a horizontal lever B, pivoted on the stud N. A bell-crank lever S is pivoted at S to the frame, and its upper arm is held by means of an adjustable weight S against the outer end of the bolt T, which, sliding and supported in the frame, has its opposite end held thereby against the long arm of the lever B, thus swinging the feed-roll P against the opposite side of the peg-wood as it is fed ICO in from that engaged by the feed-roll K. Rigid on the hub K is a ratchet-wheel T, Figs. 2 and 3, adapted to be engaged by a pawl T, mounted on the lever H and held to its work by a spring T.

A number of ribbons of peg-wood (perhaps ten or twenty) are fed into the machine in the position indicated in Fig. 1. Power having been applied to the machine, the crankdisk g, rod h, link it, and lever II cause the pawl T to engage the ratchet-wheel T and rotate it to the extent of one tooth. This of course rotates the-feed-roll K on the hub K, and similar In otion is com municated by means of the gears K, L, N, and P to the opposite feed-wheel P. Thus with every revolution of the shaft 1) the feed-wheels K P move the peg-wood ribbons forward to the extent of the desired width of one peg. As soon as this forward movement is completed the carriage Bis moved forward by the rod f and the knives O and E do their work. The knife 0, being in advance, cutsofi the stock, so as to form one side of the peg, its upper portion 0 beveling off the upper end of the peg or forming one side of the point. The knife E follows and forms the other side of the peg, beveling ofi the top and making the other half of the point. The two knives therefore cut and bevel the opposite sides of the peg. Thus should the machine feed much or little the peg will be finished completely. Of course it will be understood that machine or ribbon peg-wood strips, whether waste or not, have their opposite upper edges beveled, as shown in Figs. 3 and 5, before they are fed into the machine. This machine therefore bevels the two edges of the peg which were inside the ribbon and were at right angles to the edges which constitute the sides of such ribbon.

In order that the ribbons may be held down upon the bed and fed in evenly, the rolls U V are provided. The roll U, Fig. 3, is supported by an arm U, the opposite end of which is held down yieldingly by a spring U", the tension of which is regulated by a thumbnut U. The arm rests on the platform a. In Fig. 1 this arm and roll are omitted and their position indicated by dotted lines. The roll V is supported in a frame V, which is held down by a spring V on a rod V, which extends through a frame Y, supported by the machine, the tension of the spring being adjusted by means of a nut Y.

Of course it will be understood that any suitably soft or yielding material, such as wood, may be employed instead of metal in constructing the part F.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a machine for making shoe-pegs, the frame; a sliding knife-carriage supported by the frame; mechanism for reciprocating the carriage horizontally; two knives supported by said carriage and set one in advance of the other, said knives being bent in toward each other at their upper ends at obtuse angles and having their upright portions on vertical planes which are at a distance apart which is equal to the width of the peg to be cut; and mechanism for feeding the peg-wood across the paths of the knives at right angles therewith, substantially as described.

2. In a machine for making shoe-pegs, the frame; a'sliding knife-carriage supported by the frame; mechanism for reciprocating said carriage horizontally; the vertically-set knife 0 placed diagonally on the table and having its upper portion 0 bent inward or toward the path of the other knife; the knife E set vertically and longitudinally on the table and with its upper portion E bent inward or toward the path of the other knife, said knife E, E being shorter than the knife 0 so that its upper end intersects or extends toward a point in the bent portion of said knife 0 which is some distance below the top, the knife 0 being in advance of the knife E, and the main portions of said knives being on parallel vertical planes at a distance apart equal to the width of the peg to be cut; and mechanism for feeding the peg-wood across the paths of the knives, substantially as set forth.

3. In a machine for making shoe-pegs, the sliding knife-carriage; the knives O, E supported by said carriage; mechanism for reciprocating the carriage; the feed-rolls K, P having notched or serrated peripheries; the gears K and P on said rolls; the gears L and l mounted in the frame and connecting said gears K and P; a ratchet mechanism connected with the gear K and means for actuating the same whereby the feed-rolls are rotated sufficiently to advance the peg-wood to the extent of the width of one peg; yielding mechanism for holding the feed rolls against the opposite sides of the bunch of peg-wood or peg-wood waste which is being fed into the machine; and spring mechanism bearing on the upper side of the peg-wood, substantially as described.

JOHN LEWIS. GEORGE E. ll/LLEWIS.

Witnesses to signature of John Lewis:

EDGAR GLIDDEN, K. F. J ONES. IVitnesses to signature of George E. M. Lewis:

ALEXANDER M. REMIsE, NORMAN J LAYTON. 

